<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>The Age of Electricity on Teddy Rook Book</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/</link><description>Recent content in The Age of Electricity on Teddy Rook Book</description><image><title>Teddy Rook Book</title><url>https://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpg</url><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpg</link></image><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Benjamin Franklin: Lightning, the Rod, the Stove and Bifocals</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/franklin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/franklin/</guid><description>Printer, writer and experimenter (1706–1790) who showed lightning is electricity, invented the lightning rod, and never patented his inventions. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item><item><title>Alessandro Volta: The Pile of 1800</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/volta/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/volta/</guid><description>An Italian professor (1745–1827) who stacked zinc, copper and brine-soaked card into the first battery, after a long debate with Galvani about frogs&amp;#39; legs. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item><item><title>Michael Faraday: The Motor and the Generator</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/faraday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/faraday/</guid><description>A bookbinder&amp;#39;s apprentice (1791–1867) who became the great experimenter of the Royal Institution: the first motor in 1821, induction in 1831. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item><item><title>Samuel Morse: The Telegraph and Its Code</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/morse/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/morse/</guid><description>A painter turned inventor (1791–1872) who, with Alfred Vail and Joseph Henry&amp;#39;s science, sent messages along a wire in dots and dashes. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item><item><title>Alexander Graham Bell: The Telephone</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/bell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/bell/</guid><description>A teacher of deaf students (1847–1922) who turned the shape of a sound wave into a changing current, and patented the telephone in 1876. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item><item><title>Thomas Edison: Menlo Park and the Light Bulb</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/edison/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/edison/</guid><description>An inventor (1847–1931) who made invention a team job at Menlo Park: the phonograph in 1877, then a long-lasting bulb after testing thousands of materials. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item><item><title>Nikola Tesla: The Rotating Magnetic Field</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/tesla/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/inventors/age-of-electricity/tesla/</guid><description>An engineer (1856–1943) who pictured a motor with no brushes, driven by a magnetic field that turns, and made alternating current practical. The Age of Electricity · Inventors Ladder</description></item></channel></rss>